Hat-fastener.



L. MAGL. BEATSDN. 'HAT PASTENBR. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 27, 1911. EENEWED 00T.13, 1913 Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

Application filed November 27, 1911, Serial No. 662,604. Renewed October 13, 1913. Serial No. 795,010.

To all Lo/0m it may conce/m Be it known that I, LACHLAN MACLEAN BnA'rsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ashton, in the county of Sumner and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

This invention is an improved hat fastener especially designed for fastening ladies hats in position on the head and arranged to permit the wearer to place the hat in proper position and to fasten it securely and to yet allow the hat to be readily removed when desired, the invention consisting in the oonstruction, combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a sectional view showing two of my 1mproved hat fasteners in applied position, a

.hat being shownV in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a detail sectional view on a larger scale of one of the hat fasteners; Fig. 3 illustrates in perspective the different parts detached.

My improved hat fastener comprises a socket member 1 for attachment to a hat and a pin 2 for engagement with the hair. In practice, two of the fasteners will be used with a hat and the members l will be secured in the hat as by stitching, usually directly opposite each other. The socket member l comprises a plate 3 which is formed with an inwardly extending tongue 4 struck up therefrom and also with openings 5 which are arranged on three sides of a quadrangle. Combined with the plate 3 to form the socket member 1 with its downwardly facing opening and its opposed inner and outer spaced walls, is a casing 6 which is preferably struck up from a single piece of material, usually sheet metal, being formed on its walls 7 with tongues 8 which are passed through the openings 5 and clenched on the reverse side of the plate 8, as best illustrated `in Fig. 2. The casing 6 incloses the inwardly extending tongue 4 and together with the plate 3, forms a socket 9 which is open below.

The pin member 2 is, in effect, a hairpin of, suitable size and is preferably made of tortoise shell, either real or imitation, but may be made ofany suitable material and may be provided with any desired number of tines 10. The tines of the pin member are curved longitudinally so that the said member may be engaged with the hair on the head of the wearer and pushed up into the same, said tines curving upwardly and inwardly from their shank toward the upper central portion of the head crown. The shank 1l of the pin member 2 is at the lower end thereof and is of Z shape, as clearly illustrated in Figs. 2 and 3 embodying eX- treme elements connected together by an oblique intermediate element 13 to form a clasp 12, the outer eXtreme element 14 of the shank terminating at its lower end in a finger piece 15 and being formed with an opening 16Vto receive the tongue 4 when the shank is forced up into the socket 9. The parallel eXtreme elements of the shank occupy the same relation to each other as do the walls of the socket member. One side of the opening 16 forms a shoulder which co-acts with the inwardly extending tongue 4 so as to cause the shank to detachably lock the lower end or head ofthe pin to the socket member 1.

Bypressing inwardly on the finger piece 15, which is adapted to lie outside of the socket member, the extreme element 14 may be disengaged from the tongue 4 and the shank may be then withdrawn from the socket 9 so as to permit the pin to be en-- tirely detached from the socket member and hence admit of the removal of the hat, while leaving the pins in the hair. In practice, the pins will be ornamental and will serve as side-combs when the hat is removed as well as operating to co-act with the hat or socket embers to secure the hat in position on the ead.

While I have herein shown and described a hat fastener which embodies all the fea v tures of my invention I would have it understood that changes may be made in the form, proportion and construction of the several parts within the scope of my invention as defined by the appended claims. I would also have it understood that the various portions of the hat fastener may be made of any suitable material and may be either plain or ornamental, as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention I claim:

1. A hat fastener comprising a socket member adapted to be secured to the hat, said member being open below and having opposed inner and outer spaced walls, one of the walls having an linwardly extending tongue, in combination with a pin member Cir having a Z-shaped shank of which the eX- treme elements occupy the same relation to each other as do the walls of the socket member, one of the extreme elements being provided with an opening to receive the tongue and together with the diagonal element arranged to spring into the socket member with the opening in register with the tongue, while the other one of the extreme elements is adapted to lie snugly on the exterior face of the other socket wall and maintain the first eXtreme element in engagement with the wall of the socket member, the pin `being c urved upwardly and inwardly from its shank.

2. A hat fastener comprising a socket member adapted to be secured to the hat, said member being open below and having vertical inner and outer spaced parallel walls, the outer one of the walls having a tongue struck inwardly therefrom, in combination with a pin member having a Z-shaped shank of which that one of the parallel elements remote from the pin point is provided with an opening to receive the tongue and together with the diagonal element is arranged to spring into the socket member with the opening in registry with the tongue, while the other one of the parallel 1elements is adapted to lie snugly on the exterior' face of the inner socket wall and maintain the first parallel element in engagement with the wall of the socket member, and a inger piece on the exterior of the parallel element and adapted to lie outside the socket member, the

pin being curved upwardly and inwardly.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

LACHLAN MACLEAN BEA'ISON.

Witnesses J. Q. BLUE, JOHN L. ELLIOTT.

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